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Operating system used at the [[Stanford Artifical Intelligence Laboratory|Stanford AI Lab]].  It ran on a [[PDP-6]], [[KA10]], and [[KL10]] connected together in various configurations.  The name inofficially means "West-coast Alternative to [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]]".
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Operating system used at the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|Stanford AI Lab]].  It ran on a [[PDP-6]], [[KA10]], and [[KL10]] connected together in various configurations.  The name unofficially means "West-coast Alternative to [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]]" (although this may be a 'backronym' - a SAIL page which discusses the meaning of the name does not mention it).
  
 
It also ran on [[PDP-10]] clones at Stanford, manufactured by [[Foonly]]; one at CCRMA, and one at the [[S-1 supercomputer|S-1]] project.
 
It also ran on [[PDP-10]] clones at Stanford, manufactured by [[Foonly]]; one at CCRMA, and one at the [[S-1 supercomputer|S-1]] project.

Revision as of 15:07, 8 July 2019

Operating system used at the Stanford AI Lab. It ran on a PDP-6, KA10, and KL10 connected together in various configurations. The name unofficially means "West-coast Alternative to ITS" (although this may be a 'backronym' - a SAIL page which discusses the meaning of the name does not mention it).

It also ran on PDP-10 clones at Stanford, manufactured by Foonly; one at CCRMA, and one at the S-1 project.

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